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BIDSonym

a BIDS app for pseudo-anonymization of neuroimaging data

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=============================== BIDSonym

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Description

A BIDS <https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>_ App <https://bids-apps.neuroimaging.io/>_ for the de-identification of neuroimaging data. BIDSonym gathers all T1w images from a BIDS dataset and applies one of several popular de-identification algorithms. It currently supports:

MRI deface <https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/mri_deface>, Pydeface <https://github.com/poldracklab/pydeface>, Quickshear <https://github.com/nipy/quickshear>_ and mridefacer <https://github.com/mih/mridefacer>_.

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Additionally, the user can choose to evaluate the sidecar JSON files regarding potentially sensitive information, like for example participant names and define a list of fields which information should be deleted.

Using BIDSonym can help you make collected neuroimaging data available for others without violating subjects' privacy or anonymity (depending on the regulations of the country you're in).

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Usage

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This App has the following command line arguments:

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usage:	run.py [-h]

[--participant_label PARTICIPANT_LABEL [PARTICIPANT_LABEL ...]]

[--deid {pydeface,mri_deface,quickshear}]

[--del_nodeface {del,no_del}]

[--deface_t2w]

[--check_meta]

[--del_meta META_DATA_FIELD [META_DATA_FIELD ...]]

[--brainextraction {bet,nobrainer}]

[--bet_frac BET_FRAC]

bids_dir {participant,group}

a BIDS app for de-identification of neuroimaging data

positional arguments:
  bids_dir              The directory with the input dataset formatted
			according to the BIDS standard.
  output_dir            The directory where the not de-identified raw files should be stored,
			in case you decide to keep them.
  {participant,group}   Level of the analysis that will be performed. Multiple
			participant level analyses can be run independently
			(in parallel) using the same output_dir.

optional arguments:
  --participant_label PARTICIPANT_LABEL [PARTICIPANT_LABEL ...]
			The label(s) of the participant(s) that should be
			analyzed. The label corresponds to
			sub-<participant_label> from the BIDS spec (so it does
			not include "sub-"). If this parameter is not provided
			all subjects should be analyzed. Multiple participants
			can be specified with a space separated list.
  --deid {pydeface,mri_deface,quickshear}
			Approach to use for de-identifictation.
  --deface_t2w \
	    Deface T2w images by using defaced T1w image as deface-mask.
  --check_meta META_DATA_FIELD [META_DATA_FIELD ...]  
	    Indicate which information from the image and
	    :code:`.json` meta-data files should be check for potentially problematic information. 
	    Indicate strings that should be searched for.
	    The results will be saved to :code:`sourcedata/`.
  --del_meta META_DATA_FIELD [META_DATA_FIELD ...]
			Indicate (via strings) if and which information from the :code:`.json` meta-data
			files should be deleted. If so, the original :code:`.json` files
			will be copied to :code:`sourcedata/`.
  --brainextraction {BET, no_brainer}
			What algorithm should be used for pre-defacing brain extraction
			(outputs will be used in quality control).
  --bet_frac [BET_FRAC]
			In case BET is used for pre-defacing brain extraction, provide a Frac value.
  --skip_bids_validation \
	    Assume the input dataset is BIDS compliant and skip the validation (default: False).
  -v \
    BIDS-App version.

Run it in participant level mode (for one participant):

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docker run -i --rm \
	    -v /Users/peer/ds005:/bids_dataset \
            peerherholz/bidsonym \
	    /bids_dataset \
	    participant --deid pydeface --del_meta 'InstitutionAddress' \
	    --participant_label 01
	    --brainextraction bet --bet_frac 0.5

Run it in group level mode (for all participants):

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docker run -i --rm \
	   -v /Users/peer/ds005:/bids_dataset \
	   peerherholz/bidsonym \
	   /bids_dataset  group --deid pydeface --del_meta 'InstitutionAddress' \
	   --brainextraction bet --bet_frac 0.5

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Installation

Following the BIDS apps standard <https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005209>_ it is recommend to install and use BIDSonym in its Docker or Singularity form.
To get the BIDSonym Docker image, you need to install docker <https://docs.docker.com/install/>_ and within the terminal of your choice type:

:code:docker pull peerherholz/bidsonym

Documentation

BIDSonym's documentation can be found here <https://peerherholz.github.io/BIDSonym/>_.

How to report errors

Running into any bugs :beetle:? Check out the open issues <https://github.com/PeerHerholz/BIDSonym/issues>_ to see if we're already working on it. If not, open up a new issue and we will check it out when we can!

How to contribute

Thank you for considering contributing to our project! Before getting involved, please review our Code of Conduct <https://github.com/PeerHerholz/BIDSonym/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.rst>. Next, you can review open issues <https://github.com/PeerHerholz/BIDSonym/issues> that we are looking for help with. If you submit a new pull request please be as detailed as possible in your comments. Please also have a look at our contribution guidelines <https://github.com/PeerHerholz/BIDSonym/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst>_.

Acknowledgements

Please acknowledge this work by mentioning explicitly the name of this software (BIDSonym) and the version, along with a link to the GitHub repository <https://github.com/peerherholz/bidsonym>_ or the Zenodo reference. For more details, please see citation <https://peerherholz.github.io/BIDSonym/citing.html>_.

Support

This work is supported in part by funding provided by Brain Canada <https://braincanada.ca/>, in partnership with Health Canada <https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada.html>, for the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform initiative <https://conp.ca/>_.

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Furthermore, the project is supported by Repronim <https://www.repronim.org>_ under NIH-NIBIB P41 EB019936.

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